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mPhase Technologies Completes Functional Prototype of Lithium Reserve Battery

mPhase Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB:XDSL) today announced that it has completed the first functional prototype of its Lithium Reserve Battery that will function in the AlwaysReady Emergency Flashlight. The prototype is the ...

From MyPebble 5 Aug 2009

View of Rhodium-Based Catalyst for Hydrogen-Fuel System Offers Ideas for Improvement

An efficient catalyst is needed to get the half liter of hydrogen out of this small, 240 mg pellet of solid ammonia borane.

Credit: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

5 Aug 2009

The Potential Adverse Health and Environmental Effects of Nanoparticles

A new study raises the possibility that flies and other insects that encounter nanomaterial "hot spots," or spills, near manufacturing facilities in the future could pick up and transport nanoparticles on their bodies, transferring the particles to other flies or habitats in the environment.

5 Aug 2009

New Photo Library Shows How Nanotechnology is Changing the Energy Consumption of the World

Industrial Nanotech, Inc. (Pink Sheets: INTK), a global nanoscience solutions and research leader and member of the U.S. Greenbuilding Council and the American Solar Energy Society, announced today that the Company has l...

From Industrial Nanotech, Inc. 5 Aug 2009

Three Companies Sharing Professorship of Thin Film Technology

Thin Film Technology is the field of work of Professor Wilhelm Schabel, holder of a shared professorship at the KIT: This shared professorship is the first, in which three enterprises are involved as industry partners: Bayer, BASF, and Roche.

5 Aug 2009

Stack of Nanometer-Scale Thin Films Synthesized using Diamond Isotopes

Japanese researchers have succeeded in the vapor-phase synthesis of a stack of nanometer-scale thin films of diamond using carbon isotopes 12C and 13C, which differ in mass. Electrons and holes were confined to a single material for the first time using the diamond stack.

5 Aug 2009